Car crashes are a joke to you?
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tja@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoMaybe it was just a joke
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 months ago
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tja@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoMaybe it was just a joke
Car crashes are a joke to you?
pyre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
it clearly is, and that’s not why hearsay is inadmissible anyway.
it’s inadmissible because it can’t be cross examined.
Mac@mander.xyz 6 months ago
I think they mean eyewitness testimony. eyewitness testimony is not actually worth anything because people don’t remember things properly and often the brain will make shit up just to fill in the blanks—especially when it matters. I was crossing an intersection once and was five paces away from a serious car accident and I couldn’t even remember which car was coming from which direction. wild.
pyre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
that’s another thing, and partly why cross examination is a thing, but eyewitness testimony is not inadmissible. in fact many trials have relied on a single eyewitness testimony, and whether the jury believes the witness or not.